A three-member disciplinary panel of the Arizona Supreme Court disbarred a controversial former Maricopa County Attorney and one of his former deputies and suspended another former deputy county attorney for…
Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who served as Cook County’s top prosecutor before moving on to the city’s number-one job, will be questioned under oath about his knowledge, if…
For five years, a federal appeals court has been trying to free Shirley Ree Smith. It held in 2006 that the evidence on which her second-degree murder conviction was based…
A Tennessee law firm has been held in contempt of court and ordered, along with three of its current or former partners and another individual, to repay $670,000 that two…
Saying that Detroit City Attorney Valerie Colbert-Osamuede had no prior record of ethics violations, was unlikely to err again and gained no personal benefit from her misconduct, a state lawyer…
After nine years of legal battle, the Cook County Board has agreed to settle for $1 million a lawsuit over a since-amended weekend lockdown policy at its Chicago jail.
Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins says his deputy “has felt bad … since day one” about shooting a family pet of Roger and Sandi Jenkins (no relation) on Jan. 9,…
The owner of a Chevrolet dealership in St. Petersburg, Fla., says he has been proudly flying 11 American flags over his business on Route 19 for the past 20 years…
Farmer’s Co-op members stage a protest in Mexico City in July 2010, calling for a boycott of U.S.-made products to show their disapproval of Arizona’s immigration law. Photo AFP/Getty Images.
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Corrected: Wanted in a Christmas Eve 1999 assault on a Texas state trooper in which he allegedly bit a chunk of flesh out of the officer’s arm after a routine…
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Republican Study Committee’s plan to “eliminate the Legal Services Corporation” in the nation’s fiscal year 2013 budget is “remarkably shortsighted,” says…
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